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ment of the fort. Fulton (Red Men of 

 Iowa, 477, 1882) writes his name Ninivay 

 and says he was a Potawatonii. (c. t. ) 



Ninnipaskulgee ('higliroad people', 

 from Creek niiti-paski 'swept road', (tigi 

 'people'). A former band or tribe of 

 Upper Creeks, probably near Tucka- 

 batchi, Elmore co., Ala. 



Ninny-pask-ulgees. — Woodward, Remin., 37, 1859. 

 Road Indians. — Ibid, 



Ninstints. A Haida town which for- 

 merly stood on Anthon}' id., at the s. 

 end of Queen Charlotte ids., Brit. Col. 

 The native name was Su;A'nguai ('Red- 

 cod island'), Ninstints being the white 

 man's corruption of the town-chief's 

 name, Nungstins (Nau sttns, 'he who is 

 two'). All the people from this end of 

 Moresby id. gathered tliere in compara- 

 tively recent times. The remnant have 

 since abandoned the place and settled at 

 Skitlegate. It is impossil)le to identify 

 absolutely the name of this town with 

 that of any given in John Work's list of 

 1836-41, but it is probably referred to as 

 "Quee-ah," a town to which he assigned 

 20 houses and a population of 308. At 

 the present day there are probably not a 

 dozen Ninstints people left. The family 

 to which the chief of this town belonged 

 was the Sakikegawai. See Swanton, 

 Cont. Haida, 105, 277, 1905. (.i. r. s.) 

 NEnsti'ns,— Boas, I'Jth Rep. N. W. Tribe.s Can., 2.'), 

 1898. Ninstance. — Daw.son, Queen Charlotte Ids., 

 1(19, ISSO. Ninstence, — Poole, Queen Charlotte 

 Ids., 195, 1S72. Ninstints, — Dawson, op. cit. 

 Sg'a'nguai. — Boas, op. cit. 



Nmumu. A Cluimashan village on one 

 of the Santa Barljara ids., Cal., probably 

 Santa Rosa, in 1542. 



Ninimu. — Taylor in Cal. Fanner, Apr. 17, 1863. 

 Ninumu. — Cabrillo (1542) in Smith, Colec. Doe. 

 Fla., 186, 18,57. 



Ninvok. A Chnagmiut Eskimo village 

 near the delta of Yukon r., Alaska. 

 Ninvaug. — Zatroskin in Nouv. Ann.Vov., 5th s., 

 .\xi. iiia[>, is.'iO. 



Ninyuelgual. A former Chumashan 

 village near Purfsima mission, Santa 

 Barbara co., Cal. — Tavlor in Cal. Farmer, 

 Oct. 18, 1861. 



Nio. A small tribe, probably Piman, 

 long extinct, which formerly resided in 

 N. Sinaloa, Mexico, their village, the seat 

 of the mission of San Ignacio de Nio, 

 occupying the site of the present town of 

 the same name. Zapata, in 1678 (Doc. 

 Hist. Mex., 4th s., in, 404, 1854), said that 

 a league and a half n. e. of San Pedro de 

 (iuazave was the pueblo of San Ignacio 

 de Nio, in which the language spoken, 

 called Nio, was particular unto itself, 

 though the Mexican was also in common 

 use. Alegre (Hist. Comp. Jesus, i, 294, 

 1841) .states that Father Mendez, who 

 had entered Sinaloa as a missionary, 

 recommended "the pueblos and lan- 

 guages of the Ocoroiri [Ocoroni], Nio, 

 and some others which he had held, to 

 the charge of Father Tapia." 



Niowe. Mentioned by Bartram (Trav- 

 els, 371, 1792) as a Cherokee settlement 

 on the headwaters of Tennessee r. about 

 the year 1775. Possil)ly intended for 

 Nayii^hT, which signifies 'sand place.' 

 CL Noewe. (j.m.) 



Nipaguay. A Dieguefio village near 

 San Diego, s. Cal., about 6 m. from the old 

 presidio to which, in 1774, the mission 

 was removed. See San Diego. 

 Nypagudy.— Taylor in Cal. Farmer, Feb. 22,1860. 



Nipigiguit. A former Micmac village 

 on the site of Bathurst, at the mouth 

 of Nipisiguit r.. New Brunswick. The 

 French mission of Sainte INIagdalen was 

 there in 1645. 



Nepegigoiiit.— .les. Rel. 1645, 35, IsfiS. Nipigiguit.— 

 Vetromile, Abiiakis, 69,1866. Nipisiguit.— Mem- 

 brii quoted by Shea, Miss. Val., Sii, 1852. 



Nipinchen. Given by Bolton (Hist. 

 Westchester Co., 1881) as a former Indian 

 fort on the n. side of Spuyten Duyvil (or 

 Papirinemen) cr., at its junction with 

 Hudson r. from the e., in Westchester 

 CO., N. Y. Ruttenber (Ind. Geog. Names, 

 22, 1906) says the name belongs on the 

 w. side of the Hudson, at Konstable's 

 Hook, and doubts that there was any 

 real settlement there. Cf. Nipinichsen. 



Nipinichsen. A former Manhattan vil- 

 lage on the E. bank of Hudson r., just 

 above Spuvten Duyvil, N. Y. — Ruttenber, 

 Tribes Hudson R.', 77, 1872. 



Nipissing ('at the little water or lake', 

 referring to L. Nipissing; Niplsirinien, 

 ' little- water ])eople'). A tribe of the 

 Algonkin. W hen they first l)ecame known 

 to the French, iii 1613, they were residing 

 in the vicinity of L. Ni])issing, Ontario, 

 which has .been their home during most of 

 the time to the present. Having been 

 attacked, about 1650, by the Iroquois, and 

 many of them slain, they fied for safety to 

 L. Nipigon (Mackenzie, Voy., xli, note, 

 1802), where A llouez visited them in 1667, 

 but they were again on L. Nipissing in 

 1671. A part of the tribe afterward went 

 to Three Rivers, and some resided with 

 the Catholic Iroquois at Oka, where they 

 still have a village. Some of these as- 

 sisted the French in 1756. It is their dia- 

 lect which is represented in Cuoq's Lex- 

 ique de la Langue Algoncjuine. They 

 were a comparatively uuwarlike people, 

 firm friends of the French, readily ac- 

 cepting the Christian teachings of the 

 missionaries. Although having a fixed 

 home, they were semi-nomadic, going 

 s. in autumn to the vicinity of the Hurons 

 to fish and prepare food for the winter, 

 whi(;h they passed among them. They 

 cultivated the soil to a slight extent only, 

 traded with the Cree in the x., and were 

 much given to jugglery and shamanistic 

 practices, on wliich account the Hurons 

 and the whites called them Sorcerers. 

 Their chiefs were elective, and their 

 totems, according to Chauvignerie (N. Y. 



